A spate of late caution periods played into Greg Biffle’s hands Friday night, as the driver of the No. 16 Ford held off Jason Leffler to win the Bashas’ Supermarkets 200 Nationwide Series race at Phoenix International Raceway, team owner Jack Roush’s 100th victory in the series.
Biffle beat Leffler to the stripe by .338 seconds [...]
Dwight Howard and Stan Van Gundy have mapped out a playoff plan. Now it’s time for the Orlando Magic’s star player and coach to put it to work.
A 59-win regular season has ballooned expectations and put pressure on the Magic’s leading men to make a deep playoff push. That road begins Sunday against a Philadelphia [...]
The Flyers showed flashes of the old Broad Street Bullies spirit that revved up the crowd, jolted the offense and got them back in their playoff series against Pittsburgh.
Jeff Carter and Mike Richards scored their first goals of the series early for a sorely needed fast start. Claude Giroux and Simon Gagne put the Flyers [...]
Mark Martin puts in long hours in the gym and thinks the last time he ate fast food was a Burger King run some 15 years ago.
He lives his life like a man half of his age.
And drives like it, too.
The 50-year-old Martin became the third-oldest winner in NASCAR history Saturday night, snapping a 97-race [...]
Although Tim Lincecum readily acknowledged he was mostly awful in his first opening-day start, he left the ballpark excited about what happened.
For just about the first time since the NL Cy Young Award winner became a full-time major leaguer, he didn’t have to be outstanding for the San Francisco Giants to win.
Travis Ishikawa hit a [...]
Yovani Gallardo instinctively hacked at the high fastball, not thinking much about the pitching great who had thrown it, and his three-run homer dropped sharply beyond the fence in the left-field corner.
Although Gallardo has been alive only slightly longer than Randy Johnson has been a major league pitcher, the Milwaukee Brewers’ promising right-hander started off [...]
Matt Cain is regarded as one of the top young pitchers in the majors, but his record over the past two seasons hasn’t backed up that status thanks to a lack of run support from his San Francisco Giants teammates.
After the Giants struggled at the plate in their last game, the 24-year-old right-hander hopes to [...]
Neither the Philadelphia 76ers nor the Charlotte Bobcats played particularly well in their last game. The difference is Philadelphia has clinched a playoff spot while Charlotte may have fallen too far back to still make a run at one.
The 76ers look to bounce back from a dismal offensive performance on Tuesday when they visit the [...]
While his Milwaukee Brewers killed time in the Bay Area for two days before the majors’ final opener, new manager Ken Macha reconnected with several friends and favorite restaurants from his years managing the Oakland Athletics across the water.
When he finally gets to the San Francisco Giants’ waterfront ballpark on Tuesday, his trip will get [...]
The St. Louis Rams signed Kyle Boller on Saturday to be the backup to starting quarterback Marc Bulger.
The 27-year-old Boller spent all of last season, his sixth with the Baltimore Ravens, on injured reserve with a shoulder injury sustained in the preseason.
He was Baltimore’s first-round pick in the 2003 draft.
“We are happy to add Kyle [...]
